helpless

[helpĀ·less]

To be helpless is to have no ability to take care of or protect yourself from harm. A newborn baby is helpless, and needs parents to care for her.

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Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

Adjective S.
unable to manage independently; "as helpless as a baby"

Adjective S.
unable to function; without help

Adjective S.
lacking in or deprived of strength or power; "lying ill and helpless"; "helpless with laughter"


a.
Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

a.
Beyond help; irremediable.

a.
Bringing no help; unaiding.

a.
Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of.


Helpless

Help"less, a. 1. Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.
How shall I then your helpless fame defend?
2. Beyond help; irremediable.
Some helpless disagreement or dislike, either of mind or body.
3. Bringing no help; unaiding. [Obs.]
Yet since the gods have been Helpless foreseers of my plagues.
4. Unsupplied; destitute; -- with of. [R.]
Helpless of all that human wants require.
-- Help"less*ly, adv. -- Help"less*ness, n.

Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant.

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Usage Examples

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

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Other Usage Examples

I hope to make people realize how totally helpless animals are, how dependent on us, trusting as a child must that we will be kind and take care of their needs.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

There is a lovable quality about the actual tools. One feels so kindly to the thing that enables the hand to obey the brain. Moreover, one feels a good deal of respect for it without it the brain and the hand would be helpless.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

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